Shattering the Echo Chamber: Hidden Safeguards in Manuscripts Against the AI Takeover of Peer Review

ArXi:2605.05271v1 Announce Type: cross As LLMs become increasingly capable, editorial boards and program committees are growing concerned about reviewers who fully outsource peer review to commercial chatbots. This concern stems from prior findings that current chatbots lack the independent critical thinking and depth of reasoning required to assess scientific novelty. One promising direction for mitigating this concern is to embed hidden instructions into manuscripts that disrupt or alter chatbot-generated reviews.